A wasps fan's opinion of todays game

[alex_111]

Taken from the wasps forum:

"We played the inform team at their home, and for 40 minutes we loked the better side, until the harsh yellow card for Payne, and the knock on try..our pack has to be sorted out, yet dont forget we're missing Rees, Betson, Worsley, Simpson etc etc...i believe with them playing we would have won, and held the Tigers scrum...but we've been here before, and come away at the end of the season with a Premiership trophy under our belts...at the moment, i'm not worried, and believe we would have beaten any other team today the way we played..the trouble was we came up against an inform Tigers...and dont forget its only their 1st win against us in 6 games..so..worried...no not really.keep the faith, cos we'll play worse and win."

[SPIKE@srufc]

ouch my ribs.....stop......please

[Rizzo]

Bill - where are you? They've nicked your motto!

[Pest]

Well this wasps fan is smarting from a fair and square defeat. well played tigers.

[Daveyboy]

Well said that Pest. Very gracious of you.


I have waited a long time for a scoreline against Wasps like that and I do believe that it reflected our dominance on the day.

[Bill W (2)]

Bill - where are you? They've nicked your motto!

It has to be in the right colours, Rizzo.

KEEP THE FAITH!

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

[valerie]

get a life mate we had good players out as well murphy, ellis, kay,major, i think that you would hope that the game had been called off, and made another excuse you were beaten by a far better team, in fact you were ddt'd

Taken from the wasps forum:

"We played the inform team at their home, and for 40 minutes we loked the better side, until the harsh yellow card for Payne, and the knock on try..our pack has to be sorted out, yet dont forget we're missing Rees, Betson, Worsley, Simpson etc etc...i believe with them playing we would have won, and held the Tigers scrum...but we've been here before, and come away at the end of the season with a Premiership trophy under our belts...at the moment, i'm not worried, and believe we would have beaten any other team today the way we played..the trouble was we came up against an inform Tigers...and dont forget its only their 1st win against us in 6 games..so..worried...no not really.keep the faith, cos we'll play worse and win."

[One Over The Eight]

Which 40 minutes were they then?

[mol2]

Better side for 40 mins - well we had a sloppy first 5 minutes or so.

As for Payne being Yellow carded - only Wasps would view being penalised for cheating as harsh. It seems, in spite of a weak pack, they still can't get their heads round the idea that standing up or going down isn't a legal alternative to being pushed backwards!

When he was yellow carded it should also have been a penaly try because his pack were going backwards just feet from the try line.

[magnerstiger]

I'm not sure how Betsen et al would have solved the obvious problems that Wasps had in the front row. Even the scrum that Cole got pinged for first half was brought down on the Crumbie side by their other prop.

A lot of the fans standing near me were commenting on how dominant the pack looked and also wondered what we would have done to them had Castro and White been available as well!

[No. 3]

Isn't Tim Payne the only prop to be red carded for two scrum yellow cards (i.e. for cheating)? He was stuffed....

[MJ Chairman]

Isn't Tim Payne the only prop to be red carded for two scrum yellow cards (i.e. for cheating)? He was stuffed....

Yes the Sky commentary said it was against Bath earlier this season.

[GS]

..... and very lucky not to repeat the trick again yesterday.

[Simmo]

Lets not forget Tigers have been missing most of it's declared first team for a lot of games this season....yet look where we are. It's also worth noting the extra games we've played (South Africa) and the fact that we're in a proper European Cup.

It is true that Wasps have won a good number of our previous encounters but they were never going to win todays game because of the 4 prop rule change (brought in just for Wasps,Bath and Gloucester) that meant they were never going to convince the ref to take the scrum uncontested......as they have done many times before.

I'm surprised Messers Hanks and Edwards haven't done a Venter and commented that the 2nd half was different to the first......

[drc_007]

Wasps have really been found out in the scrum, the changes to the rules meaning uncontested scrums are no longer an option is really hurting them. To be honest I can't see a way back for them. Vickery and Shaw are no longer capable of playing a season of 80 min games and I don't think they have the cash to bring in a top class tight head. I can see why Dallaglio was trying to convince Matt Stevens should move to Wasps after his ban ends.